Is using WebView to create mobile apps a bad idea? I'm

>>60471890
It's fine, Cordova has plugins for basically everything.

Just don't write your app in javascript, use a decent language that compiles to JS like Typescript, Kotlin, Scala or Clojure.

>>60471890
>using the smiley with a carat nose

>>60471890
In the current year you should pick Xamarin or React Naive before Cordova. It won't annoy the user with a thousand small uncanny valley differences from native and performs better. It is not significantly slower to develop. It works consistently on older Android.

>>60474500
Thanks for the bumb stranger.

>>60472202
-But... but, I love javascript :( it is so easy.

>>60473956
Both of these require clunky shit like Eclipse

>>60477004
You can still use JavaScript for everything in Cordova.

Also, looks for Ionic, its a Cordova frameworks with Angular

>>60471890
>hate working with huge, clunky environments such as Eclipse.
The tradeoff is a huge clunky app

Great for prototyping though

>>60471890
I worked on some app written in JS with SenchaTouch 1 as the framework that would provide the "native like" behaviour.

It was a limited (you cant a few things in JS) and buggy piece of shit. Probably due to the technology being crap and the developers (including myself) being incompetent. Also ExtJS (which SenchaTouch is built over) is aweful.

>>60477733
Well yeah, but don't forget the advantages:
-easily provide server side updates
-quick development
-no android emulator required for testing/debugging, no mac required for iOS apps
-all platforms are compatible, even blackberry os
-web devs can use their existing skills for app development without getting into java and the android sdk etc. (me)

WebView may be clunky, but using some fancy js and css animations one atleast can make it feel a bit more fluid and native.

>>60472202
> Unironically compiling to Javascript.